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The US dollar slided on Friday after euro area inflation showed marginal signs of slowing.The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, was down 0.18 percent to 103.3831 in late trading.According to a report published by the statistical office of the European Union early Fr...
A total of 2,598 Ukrainians taken captive in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have been released as a result of prisoner exchanges, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday.So far, Ukraine has carried out 48 prisoner exchanges with Russia since the beginning of the conflict, Andriy Yusov, a spoke...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that the West is not interested in negotiating with Moscow on the issue of Ukraine.The West held multilateral meetings on Ukraine in Jeddah and Copenhagen without inviting Russia, hoping to persuade developing countries to back the Ukrainian presi...
Business
China Southern Airlines will resume direct flights from Australia's Brisbane to south China's Guangzhou in mid-November to boost tourism and personnel exchanges between the two countries.The airlines will start to fly four non-stop services a week from Nov. 17, its fourth direct flight route...
The upcoming summit of BRICS, a group of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, holds significant implications for global geopolitics, reported Modern Diplomacy on Friday.The summit has its central agenda revolving around the launch of a common currency among...
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The summer of 2023 is "a summer of extremes," resulting in major damage to people's health and the environment, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Friday.Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the WMO, said here at a press briefing that dangerous weather, including intense heat a...
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A UN official on Thursday called for a reinvigorated multilateral system for peace in order to address the root causes of hunger.A quarter billion people suffered from acute food insecurity last year, the highest number recorded in recent years. Of these people, some 376,000 were facing famine-like ...
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, said on Thursday that the United States is the "root" of all the problems in the Middle East, Israeli media reported.In his address to a memorial ceremony for a Lebanese Muslim scholar, Nasrallah said that "the main...
Russia's first lunar station in nearly 50 years, Luna-25, will fly to the Moon in the early morning of Aug. 11, local media reported on Thursday.According to Russia's RIA Novosti, the launch date is set for Aug. 11 when the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the automatic stat...
The death toll from this summer's heat wave in South Korea rose to at least 23, Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday citing the fire authorities. Two additional deaths from heatstroke were reported on Tuesday, and the estimated death toll gained to 23, more than three times higher than seve...
New research co-led by the University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard Medical School has estimated that by the age of 75 years, about one in two individuals are likely to develop at least one of the mental disorders.The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal on Sunday, included data from 1...
India currently has an estimated population of 4,000 tigers, representing an annual growth rate of 6.1 percent, said an official statement issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Saturday.The statement, released on International Tiger Day, said 3,167 tigers are living in ...
China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Thursday, based on the recent rise in international oil prices.Gasoline prices will be up by 275 yuan (about 38.57 U.S. dollars) per tonne, and diesel prices by 260 yuan per tonne, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a...
Guoyuan Port in southwest China's Chongqing is bustling, with rows of new energy vehicles queuing up to be transported overseas via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.Launched in 2017, the new corridor is a trade and logistics passage that was jointly built by provincial-level regions...
The Asia-Pacific region faces a critical window to fortify its defenses against climate-induced disasters, a UN report warned on Tuesday.According to the latest report released by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the region witnessed over 140 disas...
The Chinese economy is expected to return to solid growth and strengthen in the second half of this year and into next year, a Singaporean economist told Xinhua in a recent interview.The investment in China's high-tech manufacturing and services has continued to increase, reflecting confidence i...
Entertainment
"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" topped the North American box office, bringing in 56.2 million U.S. dollars in its opening weekend and 80 million dollars in five days, data from the measurement firm Comscore showed on Sunday.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the seventh of...
The total number of Bangladesh's internet subscribers topped 127 million at the end of May, including over 3 million new users in the first five months of this year, showed the recently released data by the country's telecom regulator.The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (B...
Turkiye has taken a "fair and balanced stance" in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and strengthened ties with both countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday."While strengthening our relations with Ukraine, we did not allow our relations with the Russian Federation to ...
Five people have been rescued while nine others are still missing after a landslide hit a highway construction site in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday, local authorities said Sunday. The landslide of more than 500,000 cubic meters struck the construction site in Yueshan Village, ...
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